Manuela García Aldana, also known as Amuleto Manuela, is a practitioner and researcher based in Berlin. Working across dance floors, art institutions, and listening environments, her practice weaves together sound sculpture, immersive soundscapes, collective listening sessions, and genre-defying DJ sets.

Her work spans artistic practice, curatorial research, and teaching. Born in what is now known as Colombia, she explores sound as a medium for unlearning, remembering, and reimagining howwe inhabit our collective life experience.

She hosts the monthly show Music Shrine on Refuge Worldwide, is a researcher and curator at SAVVY Contemporary and teaches at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (MA Raumstrategien).

Amuleto Manuela’s work has been featured internationally at institutions and festivals including Kunsthaus Dahlem, Brücke-Museum, Ultima Festival (Oslo), Real Jardín Botánico (Madrid), the Listening Biennial at Errant Sound, the Venice Biennale, and the 13th Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography in Mali.

As a DJ, she has performed at festivals including Fusion, Garbicz, and Melt, as well as clubs and cultural spaces in Berlin, Bogotá, São Paulo, Oslo, Bamako, and Amsterdam.